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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2006 – Coalition forces in Iraq yesterday found and destroyed weapons caches, detained terrorist suspects, and recovered the remains of a terrorist bomber who inadvertently killed himself, U.S. military officials there reported. The terrorist bomber was killed near Tal Afar when a roadside bomb he was emplacing detonated prematurely. Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment discovered the bomber's body and part of a shovel near a blast crater. This is the second such incident over the past three days, officials said. Two terrorists were killed Jan. 9 while emplacing a roadside bomb near Samarra. An improvised...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2006 – Iraqi and U.S. soldiers detained terror suspects and seized weapons caches in operations throughout Iraq yesterday and today, military officials reported today. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 6th Iraqi Army Division, detained a suspected terrorist and discovered a weapons cache during an early morning raid north of Baghdad today. U.S. troops from Task Force Ironhorse, a military training team with the 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, supported the Iraqi soldiers. The soldiers took fire from the insurgents, but quickly suppressed the firefight and captured a suspected terrorist. The Iraqi soldiers also discovered a wide...

BAGHDAD, (Army News Service, Dec. 6, 2005) – Coalition and Iraqi security forces continued to disrupt al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist and foreign-fighter activities during more than 450 company-level combined operations throughout the country Nov. 26 through Dec 2. “Fifty percent of the combat operations conducted this past week throughout the Iraqi theatre of operation were combined Coalition and Iraqi security force operations, while another 21 percent were independent Iraqi security force operations,” said Maj. Brandon Robbins, operations officer, Multi-National Corps, Iraq. “The ability of the Iraqi Army forces to conduct these combined and independent operations is significant.” Coalition and...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2005 – The success of joint Iraqi and coalition operations in Iraq will ensure a safe voting environment for Iraqi national elections, a senior military official in Iraq said today. "We see great progress in our operations," Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, said at a news conference in Baghdad. But one element of concern casts a shadow over that progress: Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi still has 15 days to try and derail the democratic process in Iraq, Lynch said. This mission is becoming an increasing struggle for the terrorist leader, however, the general...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2005 – Operations that have been ongoing in the Iraq's Anbar province since September have had a significant impact nationwide and have limited the ability of terrorists to conduct suicide attacks, a U.S. military spokesman said today in Baghdad. Since operations began, 700 terrorists have been killed and 1,500 have been detained in Anbar, said Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. Also, 243 weapons caches have been found and 440 mines and improvised explosive devices have been found and cleared, he said. The U.S. and Iraqi militaries have left behind a persistent presence in...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2005 – Iraqi and U.S. soldiers assigned to Task Force Baghdad responded immediately to the deadly suicide-bomb attack in central Baghdad around 9:45 a.m. local time today. Initial reports indicate 25 Iraqi citizens were killed and 14 wounded in the terrorist attack, U.S. military officials with Task Force Baghdad reported. Media reports put the death toll as high as 34 in the attack on a Baghdad restaurant frequented by Iraqi police. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and elements of a U.S. military police unit quickly arrived on the site to assist Iraqi...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2005 – Coalition forces killed two terrorists and captured six others today during a raid on an al Qaeda in Iraq safe house in Albu Bani near Ramadi, Iraq, military officials reported. Acting on multiple intelligence sources and tips from concerned citizens, coalition forces converged on the terrorist safe house, which apparently was used as an operational base to plan and conduct attacks on Iraqi security and coalition forces in the Ramadi area, officials said. Elsewhere, Iraqi police and members of a Task Force Baghdad military police unit responded to the scene of a terrorist rocket attack...

U.S. Army Sgt. David C. Harrington, of Henderson, Texas, and assigned to 3rd platoon, Company B, 2nd Battalion, 112th Armor Regiment, 56th Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, reviews the mission plan with his team of soldiers and Marines before starting their joint Army-Marine security patrol in western Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Lek Mateo More photos Soldiers, Marines Team Up to Secure Camp "War Horses" and "Devil Dogs" maintain vigilance while performing camp security in western Iraq. By U.S. Army Master Sgt. Lek Mateo 56th Brigade Combat Team Texas Army National Guard CAMP TAQADDUM, Iraq, Oct....

Secure our US Borders, Pro-America, Pro-Minuteman, Pro-Law Enforcement and Pro-Border Patrol Rally Dear Central Texan Freepers, As you know the Federal government is ignoring their duty in the Constitution to protect the borders of the United States. The States don't seem to do much better. A few months ago some people organized a group of concerned citizens named the Minutemen and they conducted a Border Watch in Arizona. This shined the light upon a very serious problem of how many illegals slip across the border every night. We heard how the border citizens were able to get their 1st nights'...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2005 – Iraqi officials estimate 93 to 96 percent of eligible Iraqis have registered to vote in the country's constitutional referendum and national elections, a U.S. general in Iraq announced. In a news conference from Baghdad Sept. 22, Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq, talked about "amazing results" in a recent voter-registration drive. He noted that only 72 percent of eligible Americans are registered to vote. "So the people of Iraq, like the people of Afghanistan, are moving towards democracy," he said. Afghanistan held successful provincial elections Sept. 18. "Democracy in action,"...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Army News Service, Sept. 13, 2005) – At least 119 suspected terrorists have been detained since Sept. 10 by Iraqi security forces and Coalition troops in northern Iraq as they continue operations to purge insurgents from the city of Tal Afar, about 30 miles west of Mosul. In a cordon and search Sept. 10, Coalition forces detained 41 individuals suspected of terrorist activity, officials said. Security forces also seized a mortar system with multiple rounds of ammunition and a cache consisting of hundreds of rounds of ammunition. “Operation Restoring Rights is being conducted to remove terrorists and foreign...

Whether on foot patrol, or from a Stryker, the Weapons Squad checks out certain hot spots one neighborhood at a time MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 25, 2005 – They’re loaded to the hilt with weapons, armor and ammunition. They roll out in their Stryker Light Armored Vehicle to beat the 120-degree-streets, smiling, waiving, and keeping rapport with the locals. They are also searching, detaining, confiscating. Anything to accomplish the mission. "We’ve had vehicles hit with IEDs, have all 8 tires blown off, and still the vehicle drove back to camp on just the rims. You can hardly do damage to the...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2005 – Afghan National Army forces and U.S. Marines killed more than 40 enemy combatants during an offensive operation over the last few weeks in the districts of Chawkay, Asadabad, Pech and Narang, in Afghanistan's Konar province. The ANA and Marines fought side by side in 29 separate engagements against the enemy, disrupting hostile activity during Operation Whalers. The operation's purpose was to disrupt enemy forces in the area and to clear the way for successful elections, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan officials said. "The ANA have demonstrated their abilities with great success," said Marine...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An animal rights activist who dodged federal authorities for years was moved to a more secure cell after he was sent what might be an escape plan in the mail, authorities said Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies said they intercepted a drawing of a courtroom marked "escape route" in Peter Daniel Young's mail July 6. They moved him from a medium security dormitory to the Dane County Jail the same day, sheriff's spokeswoman Elise Schaffer said. The drawing was vague and didn't seem to represent any specific courtroom, Schaffer said, but "it was seen as a possible security...

NAACP Official: Myrtle Beach Put Up 'Fence' Between Black, Whites Friday May 20, 2005 8:27am Myrtle Beach, S.C. (AP) - An NAACP (website - news) leader says Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is essentially putting up a fence between blacks and whites by treating them differently during two upcoming biker rallies. The Reverend Nelson Rivers the Third is chief operating officer of the national civil rights organization and a South Carolina native. He says plans by Myrtle Beach for different traffic-control plans for black and white biker weeks reminds him of a fence that segregated white beachgoers from black swimmers. Rivers...

Apple's Dashboard Hacked May 9, 2005 1:50PM What makes the issue particularly difficult to deal with, according to Stephan.com, is Apple's decision not to provide a documented way to remove Widgets once installed. In fact, Apple's Mac OS X Help files state specifically that "You cannot remove widgets from the Widget Bar or change their order."   A developer has demonstrated a Dashboard exploit in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" that a malicious Web site owner could use to install Widgets you might not want on your Mac. Writing under the name of Stephan.com, the developer said that a...

Straight talk can often inspire public confidence and cool off the debate over emotional issues. But when the issue is illegal immigration, and the straight talk is a pithy directive, it can have the opposite effect. Case in point: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's remarks to newspaper publishers about how he would tackle the vexing issue of illegal immigration. "It's a federal issue," Schwarzenegger said. "And the only thing that I can say and add to this is really, close the borders. Close the borders in California and all across Mexico and in the United States." Close the borders. Thanks for the...

(COMPUTERWORLD) - There has been a lot of buzz in the past few months over the arrival of Firefox, the open-source browser published by The Mozilla Foundation, and how Microsoft's Internet Explorer is starting to lose some of its share of the browser market to this new competitor. Out of the ashes of Netscape, Mozilla has built a solid browser that supports features such as tabbed views, Google for native searches and direct support for RSS feeds. But business users need to think twice about making the switch from Internet Explorer, since Firefox lacks the ability to run Microsoft ActiveX...

Firefox breaks 20,000,000 downloads!

Even as plans to celebrate President George W. Bush's inauguration were taking final shape, the capital on Tuesday appeared more like a city under siege.